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Open source Software for scientific computing

Manjusha S. Joshi,[email protected]

Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana,www.bprim.org

December 24, 2009

Manjusha S. Joshi,[email protected] (Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana,www.bprim.org )Open source Software for scientific computing December 24, 2009 1 / 28

Why Open Source Maths Software?

Open source Maths software are creative and Intelligent.

It updates faster, incorporate your requirement.

Support by mailing list, user groups is available.

Even you can directly suggest to developer team, can send yourpatches.

Well written manual, documents are available on net.

Can share your experience with people, at various places of the world.

You can also help others slowly and that way you learn a lot.

Project can be assigned to students on Free Software and they can doit in vacations, science exhibition.

How Free Maths Software will be of Use?

Think Free Maths software as a tool for improvement ofunderstanding of mathematics.

Maths Lab session will give clarity of concepts in maths.

Maths will get popular in students community.

One can distribute software to students that way they can their owncopy of the software to try things at home.

Drawbacks of Free Maths Software

A few things are not working or not tested some times.

Format may not be that sophisticated.

Some errors need to fix.

Some quick questions about free software:

How much reliable?

How much powerful?

How much user friendly?

Why it is free?

How much reliable?

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Why it is free?

How much reliable?

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Why it is free?

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Good start, with Free Maths Software

Dr Geo - Interactive Geometry software: School Geometry

Geogebra - Algebra and Geometry: College level

YACAS - Undergraduate Calculus: Trigonometry, Calculus

GNUPLOT - Function plots

LATEX- Mathematical Documentation preparation system, useful fortypesetting question papers, research papers, books, worksheet,question banks etc.

Software for Undergraduate studies

Euler - Numerical Analysis

Maxima - Symbolic Computations

Scilab - Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis

GAP - Commutative Algebra

Research Level Software

Singular - Algebraic Geometry

Macaulay-2 - Algebraic Geometry

Cocoa - Computational Commutative Algebra

KASH/KANT - Algebraic Number TheoryVery much tested

Dr Geo

Can prepare figures that can be included in the books, notes, projects andpresentations which are prepared by LATEX.http://www.ofset.org/drgeo

Nine point Circle

GNUPLOT

Function plotting: Easy to draw figuresBasic command to start is plot

plot x*x

This will output graph of x2.

Gnuplot understands functions like sin, log, exp etc.plot exp(x)Automatic range is taken by GNUPLOT.

Range chosen by GNUPLOT is best to understand behavior of thefunction.

If we want to observe the function in the particular interval. We canspecify the range. To plot surface use splot x*y

GNUPLOT

Function plotting: Easy to draw figuresBasic command to start is plot

plot x*x

This will output graph of x2.Gnuplot understands functions like sin, log, exp etc.plot exp(x)Automatic range is taken by GNUPLOT.

Range chosen by GNUPLOT is best to understand behavior of thefunction.

If we want to observe the function in the particular interval. We canspecify the range. To plot surface use splot x*y

Output of plot sin(x)

Website for gnuplot

www.gnuplot.info

Can solve Ordinary differential Equations

Can do Number Theoretical Computations

Can solve Trigonometric Identities

Elementary Calculus: Solve Limits, Derivatives, Integration

Can do Linear Algebra

Permutations

To Solve Ordinary Differential Equation

In> OdeSolve(y’’-y==0)Out> C65*Exp(x)+C69*Exp(-x)

Factorization of large number

1 In> Factor(20000000000345555555555);2 Out> 5*45707*213415583*410063531

Checking for Prime number

In> IsPrime(45707);Out> True

Factorization of large number

1 In> Factor(20000000000345555555555);2 Out> 5*45707*213415583*410063531

Checking for Prime number

In> IsPrime(45707);Out> True

In> Permutations({a,b,c,d});Out> {{a,b,c,d},{a,b,d,c},{a,d,b,c},{d,a,b,c},{a,c,b,d},{a,c,d,b},{a,d,c,b},{d,a,c,b},{c,a,b,d},{c,a,d,b},{c,d,a,b},{d,c,a,b},{b,a,c,d},{b,a,d,c},{b,d,a,c},{d,b,a,c},{b,c,a,d},{b,c,d,a},{b,d,c,a},{d,b,c,a},{c,b,a,d},{c,b,d,a},{c,d,b,a},{d,c,b,a}}

In> Inverse(A)Out> {{(-2)/169,(-25)/169,8/169},{225/169,(-145)/169,(-55)/169},{(-93)/169,105/169,34/169}}In> PrettyForm(%)/ \| / -2 \ / -25 \ / 8 \ || | --- | | --- | | --- | || \ 169 / \ 169 / \ 169 / || || / 225 \ / -145 \ / -55 \ || | --- | | ---- | | --- | || \ 169 / \ 169 / \ 169 / || || / -93 \ / 105 \ / 34 \ || | --- | | --- | | --- | || \ 169 / \ 169 / \ 169 / |\ /Out> TrueIn> Trace(A)Out> 44/5

Finding Factorial of 200.

In> 200!Out> 78865786736479050355236321393218506229513597768717326329474403342920304284011984623904177212138919638830257642790242637105011134628572707633172373969889439224456214516642402540332918641312424240757390324032125740557956866022603190417032406235170085879703897374720000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

To check number is prime

In> IsPrime(123111111111231117)

Out> False

To obtain prime number

In> NextPrime(231112330909)Out> 231112330919

In> IsPrime(%)Out> True

Website for YACAShttp://yacas.sourceforge.net/homepage.html

Scilab

Scilab can handle and compute

1 Vectors: Handles data by vectors

2 Matrix computations: rank, det, inverse, spec

3 Polynomials: roots of the polynomial, real and complex

4 Complex Numbers

5 SPARSE matrices: supports sparse matrices

Website:

http://www.scilab.org/

Scilab

4 Complex Numbers

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GAP is for Computational Group TheoryGAP is live project. There are notes on web which gives lab sessions onContemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph Gallian. Book it self is verynicely written and lab sessions will give ready material to work more.Website for GAP:http://www-gap.mcs.st-and.ac.uk

More software..

R : Statistical Analysis, Data handling

SAGE : Maths server, Combines many software like GAP, PARI-GPetc.itemize

Singular

In Singular, variable type is ring.Very good for Algebraic Geometry.National workshop on Singular was arranged in Allahabad in 2003.Books on Singular1.Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra, Gert - Martin Greuel,Gerhard Pfister, Springer.2.Computational Algebraic Geometry, W. Decker and C. Lossen,Hindusthan Book Agency

Computer Algebra software GAP, YaCaS, Maxima, Singular

Numerical Computations Scilab, Euler, Octave.

Statistical Computing R.

Figure Drawing Software GNUPLOT, PsTricks with LATEX, Dia, TeXCad,Xfig, XYPiC, DrGeo.

Geometry Software DrGeo

Computational Geometry PoVRaY.

Technical Typesetting LATEX: Useful for Research Papers, Mathematical /Technical articles, Books, Notes, Technical Projectswrite-ups, Question Papers etc.

SAGE Is a collection of most of the software listed above.

Python is a programming language that lets you work more quicklyand integrate your systems more effectively.

GAP http://www.gap-system.org/YACAS http://yacas.sourceforge.net/homepage.htmlMAXIMA http://maxima.sourceforge.net/SINGULAR http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/SCILAB http://www.scilab.org/Euler http://euler.sourceforge.net/Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/GNUPLOT http://www.gnuplot.info/PsTRicks with LATEX http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi/Dia http://projects.gnome.org/dia/TeXCaD http://texcad.sourceforge.net/Xfig http://www.xfig.org/XYPic http://www.tug.org/applications/Xy-pic/DrGeo http://www.ofset.org/drgeoPovRay http://www.povray.org/LATEX www.tug.orgSAGE http://www.sagemath.org/R http://www.r-project.org/Python http://www.python.org/

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